Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 184
The merchant seated him at table and took to plying him with liquor--tried every possible kind of invitation and cajolery on him.
Who acts: merchant · What happens: seat, take, ply, try · To what, where: SOLDIER, table, possible kind
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seated | nsubj |
| 3 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seated | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 table | case |
| 6 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seated | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seated | conj |
| 9 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 10 plying | mark |
| 10 | plying | ply | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 took | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 plying | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 liquor | case |
| 13 | liquor | liquor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plying | obl |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 tried | punct |
| 15 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 kind | det |
| 17 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 kind | amod |
| 18 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tried | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 invitation | case |
| 20 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kind | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 cajolery | cc |
| 22 | cajolery | cajolery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 invitation | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 cajolery | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past | the merchant | SOLDIER | table | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Value | |||
| 2 | take | past | the merchant not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ply | gerund | the merchant not said here | SOLDIER | with liquor | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with liquor=Theme | |||
| 4 | try | past | the merchant not said here | every possible kind of invitation and cajolery on SOLDIER | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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